Abstract: A method for monitoring a technical system, in particular a vehicle, with regard to a change of state of a component of the technical system. The method includes: providing component data of the technical system; providing change data that include a plurality of change decompositions, wherein the change decompositions each include one or more function blocks that are obtained by decomposing a description of a change of state with respect to a component of the technical system; providing event data that include information about state change events; if there is a state change event: providing a current history of context parameter values for context parameters; and determining, based on at least part of the current history of context parameter values and the change decompositions, whether there is a discrepancy between a state of the component and the change of state according to the state change event.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for behavior planning of a vehicle, a processing device, and a vehicle control device.

Abstract: A method for fusing environment-related parameters includes providing at least one environment-related parameter of a first sensor system; providing at least one environment-related parameter of a second sensor system; providing at least one respective boundary condition that existed when the respective at least one environment-related parameter of the respective sensor system was determined; assigning the at least one respective boundary condition to the respective at least one environment-related parameter of the respective sensor system; providing an evaluation scheme which assigns weighting factors to the respective environment-related parameter of the respective sensor system depending on the respective boundary conditions; and fusing, with a fusion device, the at least one environment-related parameter of the first sensor system with the at least one environment-related parameter of the second sensor system according to the assigned weighting factors to determine the representation of the environment of

Abstract: A method for carrying out data processing. The method includes: creating, by one or more human programmers, a first computer program for a predetermined data processing task; creating a plurality of second computer programs for the predetermined data processing task, wherein each of the computer programs is created by an artificial intelligence; processing an input by the first computer program to ascertain a first processing result, and processing the input by each of the plurality of second computer programs to ascertain a respective second processing result; ascertaining a number of computer programs among the second computer programs whose second processing result contradicts the first processing result; checking whether the number of computer programs among the second computer programs whose second processing result contradicts the first processing result is greater than a predetermined threshold, which is greater than or equal to two; and initiating a safety measure.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a technical system, in particular a vehicle, with regard to a potentially safety-relevant situation, including: determining available context parameter values for at least a portion of the context parameters comprised by the context parameter data; determining, based on the context-parameter attack decompositions, active context-parameter attack decompositions; determining, based on the context parameter situation data and the available context parameter values, safety-relevant situations that are relevant for the active context-parameter attack decompositions; determining, based on the response data and the relevant safety-relevant situations, at least one measure; and providing information regarding the at least one measure and, in particular, initiating the at least one measure.

Abstract: A navigation map for an at least partially automated mobile platform (130) is proposed, comprising: Descriptions of courses of a plurality of lanes (120), each lane (120) of the plurality of lanes having a plurality of lane segments (150); and Off-road environment data (140) of the plurality of lanes (120), wherein the off-road environment data is assigned to respective lane segments (150) of the respective lane (120), and wherein the off-road environment data includes an emergency drivability rating for an off-road environment (140) of the respective lane segment (150).

Abstract: A method for fulfilling a safety requirement of at least one vehicle in a driving situation at a point in time t. The method includes: determining a first safeguarded and position-dependent environment region of the vehicle; determining a second safety-relevant and position-dependent environment region of the vehicle; checking whether the second environment region is covered by the first environment region in the driving situation of the vehicle, and, if not, generating an item of environment region information of the vehicle based on the detected first and second environment regions and a perception function corresponding to the generation of each of the environment regions; transmitting the environment region information to an application; evaluating the environment region information by the application; and generating at least one item of suggestion information so that the safety requirement for the driving situation at the point in time t of the vehicle is fulfilled.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a technical system including a plurality of computing units on which software components can be installed during operation of the technical system. The computing units are monitored based on a monitoring requirement associated with the software components. A device, a computer program product, a storage medium, and a vehicle, are also described.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for planning an allocation of at least one computational task from a computational resource comprised in at least one vehicle to one or more of a plurality of external computational resources in a vehicular communications network. The method comprises obtaining a spatial representation of a region characterising at least one route of a vehicle from a first location to a second location, and data characterising an availability of external computational resources at a plurality of locations in the region, providing at least one computational requirement indication of at least one atomic computational task required by the vehicle during a prospective movement of the vehicle from the first location to the second location, comparing the at least one computational requirement indication to the data characterising the availability of external computational resources at the plurality of locations in the region.

Abstract: A method for ascertaining a configuration of an output of safety-relevant and non-safety-relevant information for a user of an AR device, in particular AR glasses. The method includes: receiving first data, wherein the first data are specific to at least one object in the in particular indirect and/or immediate surroundings of the user; ascertaining a safety relevance of the at least one object to the user on the basis of the first data; generating an output signal to the AR device depending on the ascertained safety relevance such that the AR device outputs safety-relevant information relating to the at least one object with a higher priority than non-safety-relevant information.

Abstract: A method for processing sensor data in a control device of a vehicle. The method includes: evaluating sensor data generated by different sensors of the vehicle for detecting its environment, via different evaluation functions which convert at least part of the sensor data as input data into output data, wherein the output data are assigned a priority using an assignment rule based on known insufficiencies of the sensors and/or the evaluation functions and the output data are used according to their priority in order to update an environment model that stores information about objects in the environment of the vehicle; recognizing an insufficiency that differs from the known insufficiencies using at least a part of the sensor data and/or at least a part of the output data; updating the assignment rule based on the recognized insufficiency.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a safety integrity level of a safety-related vehicle function of a motor vehicle, includes providing at least one infrastructure and/or vehicle sensor data signal, which represents infrastructure and/or vehicle sensor data, which are intended for the safety-related vehicle function provided by the motor vehicle. The method further includes determining a safety integrity level of the safety-related vehicle function based on the infrastructure and/or vehicle sensor data signal provided; and allocating a calculation of the safety-related vehicle function to an in-vehicle and/or an off-vehicle system, taking into account a predetermined safety integrity of the in-vehicle and/or the off-vehicle system.

Abstract: A method and a system for ascertaining a surface condition of a road region using at least one sensor of a vehicle. Data from the sensor are collected, wherein the collected data are evaluated in order to ascertain the surface condition of the road region. The surface condition is analyzed with regard to its shape, and at least one road defect of the road portion is ascertained. A planned vehicle trajectory of the vehicle is adjusted based on the at least one ascertained road defect in order to reduce the ascertained road defect and/or to prevent further road defects.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a distributed system, in which a change in a composition of components of the system is provided in an ongoing operation of the system. The method includes: carrying out a component check in which an incompatibility of the components with one another is identified; carrying out an interface check in which an incompatibility of at least one interface between the components is identified. The component check and the interface check in the case of the change in the composition of the components are carried out repeatedly in ongoing operation of the system.

Abstract: A method for operating a management program that is provided to manage at least one intervention from at least one application program in a motor vehicle into at least one component of the motor vehicle. When establishing the extent of the at least one intervention, information being made available from outside of the vehicle is taken into account.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for behavior planning of a vehicle. The method includes: ascertaining at least one planned driving behavior of the vehicle depending on an environmental perception of a vehicle environment of the vehicle, ascertaining at least one spatially resolved degree of importance of a functional impairment of the environmental perception and a spatially resolved perception capability of the environmental perception, in each case in relation to the planned driving behavior, ascertaining a risk of the functional impairment of the environmental perception for the planned driving behavior at least depending on the degree of importance and the perception capability, ascertaining a risk of the planned driving behavior for the vehicle and/or the vehicle environment depending on the risk of the functional impairment, calculating the driving behavior to be applied depending on the planned driving behavior and the risk of the planned driving behavior.

Abstract: A method for determining an encryption method for vehicle communication. The method includes: providing sensor data, wherein the sensor data result from a detection by at least one sensor of a vehicle; ascertaining an environmental model based on the sensor data provided, wherein the environmental model represents an environment of the vehicle; evaluating a current condition for the vehicle communication based on an analysis of the environmental model and an analysis of at least one communication parameter, wherein the at least one communication parameter characterizes a communication with at least one potential communication partner of the vehicle; determining the encryption method for the vehicle communication based on a result of the evaluation. A computer program, a device, and a storage medium, are also described.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for evaluating results of a computer-based machine learning system. The method includes receiving a data set of real elements, wherein each real element of the data set of real elements corresponds to a real observation; receiving a first result that was calculated by the computer-based machine learning system using the data set of real elements; generating a data set of synthetic elements in relation to the data set of real elements; transmitting the data set of synthetic elements; receiving a second result calculated by the computer-based machine learning system using the data set of synthetic elements; comparing the first result to the second result; determining, based on the first result and/or comparing the first result to the second result, one or more validity values characterizing a confidence measure of the calculated first result.

Abstract: A method for location-dependent verification of a teleoperator for remote control of a vehicle. At its current location, the vehicle repeatedly and automatedly performs the following: receiving, from the teleoperator, during remote control by the teleoperator, a response message requested via a network, ascertaining a current value of at least one network-dependent property of the received response message, determining a target value of the at least one network-dependent property, verifying the teleoperator by means of a verification of the current value of the at least one network-dependent property and of the determined target value based on a test condition, wherein in the case of a positive test result of the check, the teleoperator is authorized to perform the remote control of the vehicle, and in the case of a negative test result of the check, the vehicle terminates the remote control and/or sends a safety warning.

Abstract: A method for providing a function by a group of computing units in which computation instances are executed, each computation instance implementing the function using at least one algorithm and being set up to determine at least one result in response to a call of the function. The method includes: determining an integrity level for each of the computation instances; receiving a function request from a subscriber, the function request including a quality requirement that includes an integrity requirement; selecting a plurality of the computation instances corresponding to the quality requirement, so that the integrity level of the selected computation instances corresponds to the integrity requirement; calling the function in the selected computation instances corresponding to the function request in order to determine a plurality of results; determining a response based on the results, taking into account the quality requirement; and sending the response to the subscriber.